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FURY

                                          October 31, 2005
                                          November 2, 2005

The thesis-in-progress:
popular art advances in
small steps, by an                 TWISTING_SHADOWS   
evolutionary process.


The Nick Fury character is one of my exhibits.

The original gruff-but-likeable "Sargent Fury"
was a pretty dull, WW-II cliche and the
decision to put out a Secret Agent comic to
capitalize on the Bond craze was a similarly
dull bit of commercially-driven recourse to
cliche...

But hybridizing the two, taking the old
"Sargent Fury" character and transforming him
into "Bond" & "M" combined as "Nick Fury,
Agent of SHIELD", that was an interesting move.
   
   It's not exactly                   
   an act of genius,                                Possibly: it's another 
   but it *worked*.                                 application of the 
                                 NOVELTY_AGAIN       "rule of reversals": 
   The child was much                               Bond was "suave", so 
   stronger than you'd                              Marvel's version would 
   expect from such                                 be a "rough neck". 
   parentage.         

                                                                BLAZING 

Examples of Jim Steranko's Fury:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SHIELD_04.jpg
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SHIELD_06.jpg
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nick_Fury7.jpg

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